Adult Education Classes
Transfiguration Institute, a project of Transfiguration College, is now offering non-credit evening seminars on the Great Books and the Early Church Fathers. Sessions are ongoing, and have covered topics from Plato's Republic to the ante-Nicene Fathers of the Church.
location, Cost and Registration
Seminars are being held Tuesday evenings from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. George Romanian Catholic Church, 720 Rural Street, Aurora, Illinois 60505 (map). The cost per course is $200, which will pay for tutor expenses and contribute to the establishment of Transfiguration College. Financial Assistance is available.
To sign up for one or both classes or for more information Contact Transfiguration. In your message, indicate which class you are interested in. If you cannot join our seminars at this time but are interested at some alternate time or location, please let us know in case we are able to accommodate you in the future.
[Back to Top]Current Syllabus
Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa
- Week I: St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Correspondence with St. Basil; Oration 38, On the Theophany
- Week II: 1st and 2nd Theological Orations
- Week III: 3rd and 4th Theological Orations
- Week IV: 5th Theological Oration; Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
- Week V: Pseudo-Basil, Letter 38 (actually by St. Gregory of Nyssa); On Not Three Gods
- Week VI: The Great Catechism
- Week VII: On Virginity
- Week VIII: The Life of Moses (published by Paulist PressX
Past Syllabi
Plato
- Week I: Apology, Crito
- Week II: Phaedo
- Week III: Meno
- Week IV: Symposium
- Week V: Republic, bk. I
- Week VI: Republic, bks. II-IV
- Week VII: Republic, bks. V-VII
- Week VIII: Republic, bks. VIII-X
Early Church Fathers
- Week I: Didache; 1st Epistle of St. Clement of Rome to the Corinthians; Letter to Diognetus
- Week II: Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch; Letter and Martyrdom of St. Polycarp of Smyrna
- Week III: St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies (selections): bk. II, preface, chs. 1-11, 14-16, 25-28 (ANF 1, pp. 359-370; 376-380; 396-402) bk. III, chs. 1-4 (op. cit., pp. 414-417) bk. IV, chs. 20, 26-29 (op. cit., pp. 487-492; 496-502)
- Week IV: Tertullian, The Soul's Testimony; The Prescription against Heretics
- Week V: Tertullian, Against Praxeas
- Week VI: Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, bk. IV, chs. 25-26; bk. V, all (ANF 2, pp. 438-476)
- Week VI: Origen, On Prayer
- Week VIII: Origen, On First Principles, Preface; bk. I, all.